How good is David Benyamine?
 

I play sometimes on FT so I check out he high stakes games. DB is almost always online multitabling 3-4 different kind of pokers on the highest possible stakes. Is he winning in all forms of poker? How can this be possible since most of his opps only play one table of their favourite game. He is amazing!

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david benyamine paid for my university tuition :P

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DB is almost always online multieating 3-4 different kind of cheese. Is he winning in all forms of competitive eating? He is amazing!

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DB is almost always online multieating 3-4 different kind of cheese. Is he winning in all forms of competitive eating? He is amazing!

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Yes he is the best at everything he does. Poker, cheese, javelin and bowling. He is a soooo great!

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David is as good as anyone.

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David Benyamine busted God

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lol, benyamine is one of the sickest degens and cleans up live games and goes busto to everyone online cuz they are way above his skill level

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Judging from his online results he might be the best pot limit omaha player in the world, at holdem not so much.

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I don't play at full tilt, and I can't comment on David's skill level there. However, I did play at hi stable during a couple of the tournaments at the WSOP this year, and he played fantastic. His reads were as strong as anybody, and he took full advantage of them. If he does lose online, then it must be simply that those players are tactically better than him, but that's not much of an insult at the levels he plays. Live, I doubt there are many who are better.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

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obv benyamine sucks at holdem and is good at omaha, end of thread

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i keep hearing this mentioned about certain guys

"great live, horrible online"

there can be a few reasons for this

1. online players are much better than live players
2. online players play a different style that these guys dont match up well against
3. the ability to make physical tells play a big role in their live game
4. they have been running good live (@ 30 hands per hour this is the most likely scenario of these 4 options)

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I don't play at full tilt, and I can't comment on David's skill level there. However, I did play at hi stable during a couple of the tournaments at the WSOP this year, and he played fantastic. His reads were as strong as anybody, and he took full advantage of them. If he does lose online, then it must be simply that those players are tactically better than him, but that's not much of an insult at the levels he plays. Live, I doubt there are many who are better.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

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i don't think its fair to say that they are tactically better. It very well may be the case, but the fact that he 3-4 (minimum) tables different games and plays ridiculously long hours is a huge leak. I think in NL cash online he may be at a disadvantage but if he could plug some of his leaks he could prove otherwise. I don't think many people will argue though when combining live and online and all different forms of poker he is one of the best in the world.

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Wonder what DB had here

Full Tilt Poker Game #3593267750: Table Brookview (6 max) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 18:44:25 ET - 2007/09/17
Seat 2: David Benyamine ($52,177)
Seat 4: Ziigmund ($70,566.50)
Seat 5: jumper17 ($15,293)
David Benyamine posts the small blind of $200
Ziigmund posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
jumper17 folds
David Benyamine raises to $1,200
Ziigmund raises to $3,600
David Benyamine calls $2,400
*** FLOP *** [5c Jh 7s]
David Benyamine checks
Ziigmund has 15 seconds left to act
Ziigmund bets $5,200
David Benyamine calls $5,200
*** TURN *** [5c Jh 7s] [2s]
David Benyamine bets $17,600
Ziigmund has 15 seconds left to act
Ziigmund calls $17,600
*** RIVER *** [5c Jh 7s 2s] [9c]
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine has requested TIME
David Benyamine bets $12,400
Ziigmund has 15 seconds left to act
Ziigmund raises to $44,166.50, and is all in
David Benyamine calls $13,377, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $18,389.50 returned to Ziigmund
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ziigmund shows [6c 4s Jc 8s] a straight, Nine high
David Benyamine mucks
Ziigmund wins the pot ($104,353) with a straight, Nine high
David Benyamine is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $104,354 | Rake $1
Board: [5c Jh 7s 2s 9c]
Seat 2: David Benyamine (small blind) mucked
Seat 4: Ziigmund (big blind) collected ($104,353)
Seat 5: jumper17 (button) didn't bet (folded)

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Full Tilt Poker Game #3593332895: Table Brookview (6 max) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 18:51:12 ET - 2007/09/17
maerliu adds $8,000
Seat 2: David Benyamine ($50,593)
Seat 4: Ziigmund ($84,944.50)
Seat 5: jumper17 ($14,892.50)
Seat 6: smask ($7,600)
smask posts the small blind of $200
David Benyamine posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Ziigmund raises to $1,400
jumper17 has 15 seconds left to act
jumper17 folds
smask folds
David Benyamine calls $1,000
*** FLOP *** [8s Jc 7d]
David Benyamine bets $3,000
Ziigmund calls $3,000
*** TURN *** [8s Jc 7d] [3d]
David Benyamine bets $7,200
Ziigmund calls $7,200
*** RIVER *** [8s Jc 7d 3d] [6c]
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine checks
Ziigmund bets $23,400
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine has requested TIME
David Benyamine calls $23,400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ziigmund shows [5c 6h 9c 2h] a straight, Nine high
David Benyamine mucks
Ziigmund wins the pot ($70,198) with a straight, Nine high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $70,200 | Rake $2
Board: [8s Jc 7d 3d 6c]
Seat 2: David Benyamine (big blind) mucked
Seat 4: Ziigmund collected ($70,198)
Seat 5: jumper17 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: smask (small blind) folded before the Flop

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The best part about Mr. Benyamine is Ms. Benyamine.

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The best part about Mr. Benyamine is Ms. Benyamine.

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People keep saying that he lost online with no prove of that. All I can see is he's up this year on all of his accounts combine. Yes he does lost on NLH but his PLO result is huge. I think he's up over 1mil. FTP online this year so far. How could he be a loser?

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obv benyamine sucks at holdem and is good at omaha, end of thread

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It may sound a ridiculous question but do you think that guys like Benyamine, Gus, Mattusow etc actually track their results that welll. Do you think that they have Pokertracker for example, and can see that they are crushing Omaha, losing at NLH, or whatever? They can obviously, see their total by their balance, but it seems crazy to me that Benyamine for example would continue to play NLH.

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tofu_boy, theres rumors around (and i think DB mentioned it himself) that he is/was on a huge downswing, 5 million was the figure.

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Better than me..that's for sure

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The perception of DB is disorted by many. They try to extrapolate his online NLHE game to his poker ability as a whole. What these people forget is that NLHE is David's 4th or 5th best game.

I'd like to see some of the hotshot NLHE players sit down at a table full of the best players in the world at Stud, Omaha 8 or better, Stud 8, Razz, etc. They'd get their house cleaned, and would be certified fish.

Although it may come as a surprise to many, a few more poker games exist besides HE. As far as *overall* poker ability, David is among the best in the world.

By the way, one of David's leaks is that he doesn't eat while he plays poker (Neagreanu mentions this in one of his blog entries.) If he plays for 18 hours, he doesn't eat for 18 hours. Add onto that the fact that he multi-tables many types of games for obscene lengths of time (i.e., the dude has to be massively hungry and tired), I don't think he has his A-game working online anywhere near all the time. Given his robust girth, however, he must compensate (and then some!) for his lack of eating when he finally pulls himself away from the tables.

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By the way, one of David's leaks is that he doesn't eat while he plays poker (Neagreanu mentions this in one of his blog entries.) If he plays for 18 hours, he doesn't eat for 18 hours.

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i heard if he played a 18 hour session he starts a 6 hour eating session...
so his leak is: he doesnt sleep

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The perception of DB is disorted by many. They try to extrapolate his online NLHE game to his poker ability as a whole. What these people forget is that NLHE is David's 4th or 5th best game.

I'd like to see some of the hotshot NLHE players sit down at a table full of the best players in the world at Stud, Omaha 8 or better, Stud 8, Razz, etc. They'd get their house cleaned, and would be certified fish.

Although it may come as a surprise to many, a few more poker games exist besides HE. As far as *overall* poker ability, David is among the best in the world.

By the way, one of David's leaks is that he doesn't eat while he plays poker (Neagreanu mentions this in one of his blog entries.) If he plays for 18 hours, he doesn't eat for 18 hours. Add onto that the fact that he multi-tables many types of games for obscene lengths of time (i.e., the dude has to be massively hungry and tired), I don't think he has his A-game working online anywhere near all the time. Given his robust girth, however, he must compensate (and then some!) for his lack of eating when he finally pulls himself away from the tables.

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i love how you say this without ever seeing these players play a single hand of those games. you have never sat the big game, you have no idea, half of those guys got their fortune through businesses and the other half through playing other games and limit holdem, ocassionally mixed games with the biggest fish in the world.

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Given his robust girth, however, he must compensate (and then some!) for his lack of eating when he finally pulls himself away from the tables.

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If you habitually go hungry for 18 hours then gorge yourself to make up for it then your body will tend to turn a lot of food into fat, not unreasonably when ya think about it.

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Dbens is the man and Erica is so hot =D

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Honestly, how is DB not everyone's hero. Fat degenerate who crushes and has a hot poker playing wife.

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By the way, one of David's leaks is that he doesn't eat while he plays poker (Neagreanu mentions this in one of his blog entries.) If he plays for 18 hours, he doesn't eat for 18 hours.

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i heard if he played a 18 hour session he starts a 6 hour eating session...
so his leak is: he doesnt sleep

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lol! O rly ^_^

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Benyamine makes a ton of money online at PLO and loses a ton of money online at NLHE.

This doesn't necessarily mean he is bad at NLHE it just means he isn't +ev in shorthanded games vs aba/jman/durrr/cts etc.

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tofu_boy, theres rumors around (and i think DB mentioned it himself) that he is/was on a huge downswing, 5 million was the figure.

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I do agree that he hit huge downswing about 3 months ago. But he does win alot before that and last 2 months he also win some nice # to offset those downswing and be on the +$ side for the year.

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This good.

Full Tilt Poker Game #3596881812: Table Bennett (6 max) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:35:57 ET - 2007/09/18
Seat 1: David Benyamine ($15,600)
Seat 2: OMGClayAiken ($48,590)
Seat 3: Brandon Adams ($18,591)
Seat 4: cymbaline ($40,197)
Seat 5: trex313 ($54,194)
Seat 6: xSt0n3rx ($65,782)
trex313 posts the small blind of $200
xSt0n3rx posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
spartakis55 (Observer): 1 MORE
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine calls $400
spartakis55 (Observer): OK
luckystart147 (Observer): u gonna pay up?
MstAA mAArtini (Observer): a cubic foot of gold cant way 2000lbs
MstAA mAArtini (Observer): you're fulla chit
spartakis55 (Observer): 30 SEC THIS TIME
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken raises to $1,800
Brandon Adams folds
cymbaline folds
trex313 folds
MstAA mAArtini (Observer): and it def ways more than 5 lbs
spartakis55 (Observer): LOOK IT UP
xSt0n3rx folds
MstAA mAArtini (Observer): okay
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine calls $1,400
*** FLOP *** [Ad 7s Tc]
luckystart147 (Observer): next question
David Benyamine checks
spartakis55 (Observer): IF UR PLAYIN TYPE5
luckystart147 (Observer): 5
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken bets $3,100
David Benyamine raises to $6,200
cubbies21 (Observer): yes
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken raises to $9,300
luckystart147 (Observer): so whats the quesion
David Benyamine raises to $13,800, and is all in
OMGClayAiken calls $4,500
David Benyamine shows [Ah 6h]
OMGClayAiken shows [Ac Kd]
*** TURN *** [Ad 7s Tc] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [Ad 7s Tc 9c] [8h]
David Benyamine shows a straight, Ten high
OMGClayAiken shows a pair of Aces
David Benyamine wins the pot ($31,797) with a straight, Ten high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $31,800 | Rake $3
Board: [Ad 7s Tc 9c 8h]
Seat 1: David Benyamine showed [Ah 6h] and won ($31,797) with a straight, Ten high
Seat 2: OMGClayAiken showed [Ac Kd] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: Brandon Adams didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: cymbaline (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: trex313 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: xSt0n3rx (big blind) folded before the Flop

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PLO Result from 1-1 to 9-16
KaiBuxxe
$2.973.671,10 666 60855 642,36
David Benyamine
$2.268.589,20 1027 126277 1464,57
ballsrider
$1.513.943,50 124 19699 243,65
Luigi66369
$1.246.233,00 211 26650 365,53
Phil Ivey
$1.122.556,00 362 23477 298,29
DaFool
$1.012.410,50 324 39439 425,93
MacMuffin
$868.123,50 147 9380 118,01
chewigirl
$825.741,00 278 27915 326,83
magicpitch1
$682.215,50 112 18138 220,66
itislinda
$654.477,80 382 10988 147,33
his PLO result in 3 names +4.5 Mils

NLH Result.
noataima
$-3.454.905,25 203 40437 395,11
David Benyamine
$-1.280.982,70 366 54552 409,43
magicpitch1
$-1.207.884,35 112 22848 191,28
Ziigmund
$-699.212,65 121 10039 68,43
Gus Hansen
$-686.355,75 97 8872 98,26
Ram Vaswani
$-539.861,00 46 8356 54,06
SheFaLLs
$-519.420,45 84 9752 85,78
A_Hoffman
$-505.024,20 38 5146 32,6
Ozzy 87
$-478.529,60 370 28283 248,7
Luigi66369
$-470.426,10 119 14366 149,18
his NLH result -2.5 mil

Assume that he breakeven between Limit and Horse
we have final number DB +2 millions up to date.

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God, so bad.

Full Tilt Poker Game #3596989293: Table Bennett (6 max) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:47:44 ET - 2007/09/18
Seat 1: David Benyamine ($34,388)
Seat 2: OMGClayAiken ($40,997)
Seat 3: Brandon Adams ($17,788)
Seat 4: cymbaline ($40,597)
Seat 5: trex313 ($53,591)
Seat 6: xSt0n3rx ($74,776)
xSt0n3rx posts the small blind of $200
David Benyamine posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
OMGClayAiken folds
Brandon Adams folds
cymbaline folds
trex313 raises to $1,400
xSt0n3rx folds
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine raises to $5,200
trex313 calls $3,800
*** FLOP *** [4d 8s 3d]
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine bets $7,200
trex313 calls $7,200
*** TURN *** [4d 8s 3d] [Tc]
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine bets $21,988, and is all in
trex313 calls $21,988
David Benyamine shows [Ah 5d]
trex313 shows [8c 8h]
*** RIVER *** [4d 8s 3d Tc] [5c]
David Benyamine shows a pair of Fives
trex313 shows three of a kind, Eights
trex313 wins the pot ($68,973) with three of a kind, Eights
David Benyamine is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $68,976 | Rake $3
Board: [4d 8s 3d Tc 5c]
Seat 1: David Benyamine (big blind) showed [Ah 5d] and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 2: OMGClayAiken didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Brandon Adams didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: cymbaline didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: trex313 (button) showed [8c 8h] and won ($68,973) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 6: xSt0n3rx (small blind) folded before the Flop

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By the way, one of David's leaks is that he doesn't eat while he plays poker (Neagreanu mentions this in one of his blog entries.) If he plays for 18 hours, he doesn't eat for 18 hours. Add onto that the fact that he multi-tables many types of games for obscene lengths of time (i.e., the dude has to be massively hungry and tired), I don't think he has his A-game working online anywhere near all the time. Given his robust girth, however, he must compensate (and then some!) for his lack of eating when he finally pulls himself away from the tables.

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His only weakness is hungry and sleepy.

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lol, benyamine is one of the sickest degens and cleans up live games and goes busto to everyone online cuz they are way above his skill level

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David Benyamine has played on 4 accounts this year and
Highstakesdb.com has thoes accounts up ~ +2 million between the nlhe and plo sessions they have monitored. I have seen screenshots of David been a million dollar loser in the Limit games, but that was before a small upswing. At the same time people were saying he was million dollar winner in the limit section of the HORSE games. David is a big winner in the Omaha hi/lo games ~ 1 million.

It would be great to see poker tracker stats for the other games, but I would have David as a 3 million dollar winner online this year.

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1. online players are much better than live players
2. online players play a different style that these guys dont match up well against


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WRONG on so many levels...praying this is a level

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For those of you who watch the poker after dark, Gus was on last night in an absolutely pissed off mood, When DN asked him what was wrong he replied. "they bent me over last night" Dn said who, Benyamine, chip, bobby, I guess he lost a lot in the big game, But i hear that David has been the most profitable this year in that game, But it was funny to see how gus acted, if you get a chance watch it, it is worth it

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real good